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Comment Re:Let me get it straight (Score 3, Insightful) 114

If a crafty person prints $20 bill on the printer, he is a criminal and a counterfeiter.

When central banks create money by simply changing the numbers in the computer, it is called quantitative easy.

Yes. That's how money works.

It's no less weird that we have rules like this than it is to agree that little bits of paper are worth anything at all in the first place.

Comment Re:How about "not diamond"? (Score 1) 79

Diamond is characterized by each carbon bonding with 4 other carbons. You can't get a thread out of it.

Not that this is a diamond - the paper doesn't use the word, apparently - but doesn't that depend how you define "thread"? I don't see anything in the summary about the size of these things, so what if they're 100 atoms thick? At what thickness could they no longer be diamond?

Comment Re:Wrong approach (Score 1) 50

So, basically you welcome viruses and malware

No, of course not. Why would you think that?

In reality, it is far better to vaccinate and never get sick, than it is to self-repair after you get a virus.

Nice soundbite, until you remember that there aren't vaccines for every single disease (or even better, when you remember the analogy between the immune system and a server is a tenuous one at best)

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